Science in the Triangle

Events taking place the week of Dec. 14 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:

Monday

-6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Irregardless Cafe, 901 W. Morgan St., Raleigh

CED’s renewable energy business network reception

More information here.

Tuesday

- 11 a.m. to noon

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park

Rall Bldg., Rodbell A

Biostatistics Branch Seminar: Ordinal-dominance-curve-based inference for stochastically ordered distribution

Speaker: Ori Davidov, University of Haifa

- Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Research Triangle Park headquarters, 12 Davis Drive, Research Triangle Park

TARDC lucheon

Speaker: Dr. Richard Stack, president of Synecor

Cost: $35 for non-members

- Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Sigma Xi, 3106 E. Hwy. 54, Research Triangle Park

Pizza luncheon: An Empire Lacking Food: The Astonishing Existence of Life on the Deep Sea Floor

Speaker: Craig McClain, marine biologist and assistant director of science at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham

RSVP required at cclabby@amsci.org

Wednesday

-9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sheraton Hotel, 1 Europe Drive, Chapel Hill

National NIEHS event: Asbestos: A science-based examination of the mode of action of asbestos and related mineral fibers

Thursday

-7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.

N.C. Biotechnology Center, 15 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park

Triangle Global Health Consortium breakfast discussion: Validation of clinical trial results - the clinician’s vs statistician’s interpretation of the Thailand HIV/AIDS vaccine study

Facilitators: Ken Schulz, vice president of Family Health International’s quantitative sciences department and author of the CONSORT guidelines for reporting clinical trials, and Dr. Myron S. Cohen, professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology and public health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

- 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park

Rall Bldg. Room D450

Seminar: The complex lives of the glucocorticoid receptors in health and disease

Speaker: John Cidlowski

-2:30 p.m.

N.C. State University, 105 Schaub Hall

Dept. of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences Seminar: Use of Predictive Microbiology Information Portal, the USDA-Pathogen Modeling Program & ComBase

Speaker: Vijay K. Juneja, lead scientist, Microbial Modeling and Bioinformatics, Microbial Food Safety Research Unit, USDA-Agricultural Research Service

Friday

- 9 a.m.

N.C. State University, Stephens Room, 3503 Gardner Hall, Raleigh

Dept. of Microbiology Seminar: Characterization of the prostaglandin E2 response to poxvirus infection, and evaluation of the anti-poxvirus activity of tetra-O-methyl nordihydroguaiaretic acid

Speaker: Justin J. Pollara, NCSU Microbiology

- 9 a.m.

N.C. State University, 105 Schaub Hall, Raleigh

Dept. of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences Seminar: Development of molecular-based methods to capture and detect salmonella and campylobacter in complex samples matrices

Speaker: Hari Prakash Dwivedi